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Regionalism in West Africa : Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? : A Role for Migration
Konseiga, Adama - 2005
) and highlighted the size of the brain loss toward Côte d?Ivoire and France. Burkina Faso shows a more severe brain drain … France. The subsequent empirical strategy consists in comparing the growth performance of an economy without migration to the … country (France) and failed when migration, as is the case for Burkina Faso, flows into Cote d?Ivoire the polar economy of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262227
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A primer on the 35-hour in France, 1997 - 2007
Askenazy, Philippe - 2008
France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268711
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Public housing and residential segregation of immigrants in France, 1968-1999
Verdugo, Gregory - 2011
This paper studies the evolution of the residential segregation of immigrants between and within urban areas in France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274609
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The French unhappiness puzzle: The cultural dimension of happiness
Senik, Claudia - 2011
-negligible importance in explaining international heterogeneity in happiness. In some countries, such as France, they are responsible for 80 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286851
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"One Muslim is enough!" Evidence from a field experiment in France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2011
Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286872
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Gender, economic development and Islam: A perspective from France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012
national origin and ethnicity, and on experimental as well as survey evidence collected in France, puts this syllogism to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286900
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Muslims in France: Identifying a discriminatory equilibrium
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2012
. Survey and experimental data collected in France in 2009 reveal that Muslims and rooted French are locked in a sub …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289843
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The Impact of Growth, Labour Cost and Working Time on Employment: Lessons from the French Experience
L'Horty, Yannick; Rault, Christophe - 2003
To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data are carried out in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275663
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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005
This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is non-compulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...
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Growth, volatility and political instability: non-linear time-series evidence for Argentina, 1896 - 2000
Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos G. - 2007
What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual time series data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268236